Collection: Helene F Campbell

I went through several iterations before going on to complete my formal training at Melbourne Polytechnic, where I completed an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery Manufacture & Design, the start of my real journey as a Goldsmith. 

Working with Gold and Silver these days there are several choices, I personally find I prefer to encompass the more traditional hand methods, in preference to using CAD or Wax Carving & Casting for everything. The joy of starting with granules of buttery gold, alloying them up to the required carat. Matching math and metallurgy together to create a balanced alloy that is true to carat. Creating and taking the billets and hammering them to realign the metal crystals before the process of rolling, heating, rolling heating repeatedly until the billets are turned into sheet or wire to create new pieces of jewellery. The sheer physicality of creating your own sheet and wire which in turn is used to create intimate one-off pieces of wearable art is an absolute artform in itself, that machines only mimic.